NFPA is soliciting session proposals for the 2014 NFPA Conference & Expo, to be held June 9-12, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The NFPA Conference & Expo is widely regarded as the most comprehensive event in the industry. With approximately 5,000…

A poster session will be held during lunch on Wednesday, October 16th from 12:10 to 1:30 pm at the Eccles Conference Center. Poster submissions are encouraged from anyone wanting to highlight their work and ideas for change agents and managing…

LANDFIRE 2010 took two years to complete and represents the most current mapped products available from the LANDFIRE program. Thousands of satellite images were analyzed to determine where landscape changes occurred from 2008 (the date of…

This project examines recent Front Range fires and uses the 2010 Fourmile Fire in Boulder County as a case study of risk preparedness, response and recovery. Issues like wildfire and flash flood risk and public water supply are reviewed as well…

The Prescribed Fire Community of Practice (CoP) was created to provide a clearinghouse for information on conducting controlled burns and the effects of fire on plants and wildlife. The CoP provides information on fire through articles and…

ESRI provides an interactive map of US wildfire locations, perimeters, fire potential areas, global burn areas, wind conditions, and precipitation via streaming data from NIFC, GeoMAC, NHSS, MODIS, METAR/TAF, and the USDA Forest Service, Fire…

The Southern Rockies Fire Science Network (SRFSN) is a new program hosted within the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, and is one of 16 regional consortia of the national Joint Fire Science Program. The program funds and supports…

Thanks to NLW co-chair Martin Maricle of the Alaska Division of Forestry and the Lessons Learned Center, recordings of presentations from the March 2013 National Logistics Webinar are now available on the Lessons Learned Center YouTube channel. A…

In March, the Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment published "Modeling Emissions from Open Biomass Burning in Asia Using the BlueSky Framework" by Choi and others. This framework and its submodels - Fuel Characteristic Classification System (…

The November 2012 research experimental burns in Florida (RxCADRE) were featured by Canada's Discovery Channel. Their 5-minute video explains the purposes of the project, and includes clips of fire planning, deployment of equipment, and the fire…

ForWarn is forest change recognition and tracking system that uses high-frequency, moderate resolution satellite data. It provides near real-time forest change maps for the continental United States that are updated every eight days. These maps…

This workshop is held November 13-19, 2013. Please plan to travel home on November 20, 2013.

Curriculum

This workshop will provide participants the opportunity to:

Become familiar with interagency fuels management direction…

In response to one of the worst wildfires in Colorado history, scientists from CSU's Warner College of Natural Resources are leading a first of its kind, large-scale wildfire impact study on the High Park Fire in partnership with Colorado's…

The Northern California Prescribed Fire Council has just announced an upcoming prescribed fire training exchange (TREX), which will take place October 21 - November 3, 2013 in northern California. The TREX is a collaboration between the NCPFC,…

Canopy fuel stratum characteristics determine to a large extent the behavior of crown fires. By linking an extensive forest stand database with foliage dry weight allometric equations, Miguel Cruz, Marty Alexander and Ron Wakimoto have developed…

Applications can be submitted online at any time. The deadline for application for this year is August 16, 2013. Applicants will be notified of results by November 1, 2013. All applicants must be current members of AFE.

The Association of…

The Forest Service and Ad Council have also launched new public service announcements (PSAs) this week as part of the Fire Adapted Communities initiative. The press release includes links to the audio, video and print PSAs, which share the…

I am seeking applications for a graduate student at the MS level to join an ongoing project examining patterns of fire severity and their relations to climate variability ("Disappearing refugia: identifying trends and resilience in unburned…

Air Tanker Base Manager: This position serves as an Air Tanker Base Manager. Responsibilities include: management of an aerial retardant base in support of wildland fire suppression activities; management and administration of assigned contracts…

A career with the Forest Service will challenge you to manage and care for more than 193 million acres of our nation's most magnificent lands, conduct research through a network of forest and range experiment stations and the Forest Products…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Watershed Academy Web offers a variety of self-paced training modules that represent a basic and broad introduction to the watershed management field. View courses here.

These classes are offered…

The National Interagency Fuels, Fire, and Vegetation Management Technology Transfer team (NIFTT) offers online courses year round. Check out the online course listing here.

These online classes are offered year round.

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The Southern Research Station (SRS) will soon be advertising a vacancy for a GS7/9 Ecologist with the Center for Forest Disturbance Science (SRS-RWU-4156). The Center for Forest Disturbance Science is part of the SRS "Threats to Forest Health"…

Financial assistance will be awarded for projects that advance the LCC Network Vision and Mission by addressing the following priority theme areas addressed in Section XI of the full announcement:

Theme A - Integrating Assessment and…

The interagency Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) intends to request proposals through one or more formal Funding Opportunity Notice (FON) announcements beginning approximately October 1, 2013 and remaining open through November 22, 2013. The…